As a part of it’s global philanthropic program, Google has announced that it will giving a grant of US$ 5 Million to Bharti Foundation in order to set up elementary education schools in India. Bharti Foundation happens to be the philanthropic unit of Bharti Enterprises Ltd which is the parent company of Bharti Airtel – One of India’s largest telecom companies.

In order to tap more out of the available potential on the IT testing sector, Wipro has launched a portal for Testing as a Service (TaaS) which will mainly cater to start-ups and small, medium businesses. With the launch of this service, Wipro feels that many new companies may now come under the Wipro fold.

TeachNext is a unique e-Learning solutions company which provides a complete end-to-end solution consisting of a Set-Top-Box which can connect to a TV, it’s remote, high-quality educational content and software.

Motorexchange.in – an online marketplace for used vehicles founded by a former chief executive of Mahindra First Choice just raised it’s second round of funding of $5 Million. In other news, Groupon has acquired Kolkata based local deals website SoSosasta.com

Research firm InMobi’s network research data shows that the volume of mobile ad impressions in India has grown by 22% in just three months making India the largest mobile ad market in the Asia-Pacific region.

Payoneer has been used as a decent alternative to PayPal whenever it stops serving to Indian customers. Recently, Payoneer announced that the RBI is creating trouble to Payoneer and that it will stop serving Indian customers too. Although Payoneer maintains that this is a temporary block, users with Payoneer accounts in India with money in the account are in a fix. This post shows a couple of ways via which you can get your money back!

Google Maps has really made it easy for people who are new in a city to find out places and how to reach at their destinations. Google Maps already had transit info for Chennai, Delhi & Kolkata metro. Now two more cities – Pune & Bangalore have been added to that list.

Looks like the results of CAT 2010, one of the world’s most competitive exams that lead to the admission in to the Indian Institutes of Management, have been leaked. The results were supposed to be declared on Jan 12, 2011.